Ancient Thinkers on the Power of Music II
Music and Human Character The second part of this exploration of the power and importance of music by ancient authors looks at the...
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The Ancients on the Power of Music
Music is one of life’s pleasures and one we can all enjoy. I love music and I enjoy playing it and performing it. I make no claim to...
Dr George’s Old-Fashioned Fancies
Wordy Weekly XXX One slightly mad classics-related love of mine is the fact that it can introduce you to words, no longer used or...
Sententia Cotidiana XVI - Ancient Words, Modern Wisdom
Ancient Words, Modern Wisdom Two posts on my LinkedIn feed inspired today’s ‘Thought for the Day.’ The first was a clearly very capable...
The Touching Beauty of the Every Day
Ancient Depictions of Scenes from Everyday Life Dog owners and lovers will be familiar with the following scene: “Dogs fuss over their...
Sententia Cotidiana XV - Human Beings – The Creation of ‘The Other’
At the opening of his book, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, Benjamin Isaac notes that the term ‘racism’ is relatively...
Sententia Cotidiana XIV
Today’s thought for the day is inspired by the following passage from the Greek historian, Polybius. “They also entrusted them [a...
Sallust - The Grumpy Historian
If you do not already know Sallust’s works or have not previously heard of him, I hope you will be inspired to investigate him further by...
Sententia XIII
“Education breeds knowledge. Knowledge can lead to critical thinking. Critical thinking is power.” This Aristotle-styled syllogism is...
Cicero
Born in Arpinum (a town that received full Roman citizenship in 188) in 106, Cicero became the most famous Roman orator, arguably the...
Sententia hodierna XII (20/08/2021)
Is Democracy a necessary condition for Comedy to flourish? When I Googled ‘the connection between democracy and comedy’, on the first...
A Real MYTHtery! (15/08/2021)
(okay, so there's a reason I am not a comedian) Myths are obviously an important part of the ancient world. it would be very easy to...
Wordy Weekly XXIX - Wordy Linkies
A slightly different approach to the Wordy Weekly this week. Wordy Links. In Latin fero and in Greek φέρω mean ‘I bring, I bear, I...
Wordy Weekly XXVIII - Something Fishy
This week, we are going to look at the linguistic journey of a familiar modern phrase, a favourite dish actually, from its Latin...
Sententia Cotidiana XV: The Hijacking of Latin and Classics
"A man walks into a library looking menacing with a very large Greek lexicon under his arm. He stands threatening by the librarian...
Homer: an Ancient Mystery
As the first entry in the 'Who's Who?' section of the blog, we must start with 'Homer'. But who was he? This might seem like an odd...
Sententia Cotidiana XI
It looks as thought the theme for the week is going to be ancient concepts and terms used in modern education. Today, we look at the word...
Wordy Weekly XXVII
We continue the biology/animal flavour this week. We start with Latin this week. BOVINE, CANINE, EQUINE, OVINE, VULPINE, LEPORINE,...
SENTENTIA COTIDIANA X
Part Thought for the Day, part Wordy Weekly. Today's thought is inspired by the announcement about the government's investment in the...
An Apology for Classics and Latin
[A clarification: (added 06/12/2021) I use 'apology' in the sense of the word's ancient Greek predecessor 'defence'. After the rather...
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